You could add the 1960s space program as well. A documentary made at the time described the construction of the Apollo moon rockets in the following terms.

Each rocket was assembled from "three million parts," contributed by workers at "twenty thousand companies, universities, and government facilities." Altogether, this was "the result of the work of some three hundred thousand Americans, in disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and management." URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGY5qOwx3nQ

Whence also the beginnings of such eventual 'spinoffs' as solar photovoltaic power and modern microelectronics, which existed as lab curiosities but were subjected to accelerated development because (e.g.) the room-filling digital computers of the early 1960s would not fit inside the capsules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer.

As Sir Henry Tizard, one of the leading technologists of the earlier World War II era, was later to note, "“one can make almost any scheme work if there is a general desire to do so.” (Ronald Clark, Tizard, London, 1965, p. 76).